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bioemerl  ·  3409 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: List of ethical concerns in video games (partial)

    Women are more often attacked using rape threats, sexual harassment, gendered slurs, etc.

The goalposts have moved.

Do you agree that women need to be showing they are under attack from people who are doing so because they are a woman, and that people currently claiming they are under harassment because of their gender have not shown that this is so?

    Saying you're going to rape a female, is met with hoots and howls, at worst silence but rarely dissent.

From what I have observed, this flat out is not true. Perhaps it happens in low quality, idiot-territories, that I don't visit, but I have never seen this happen. Rape-jokes maybe, but directly saying "i'm going to rape you" in the sexual manner (it's used sometimes as a "absolutely destroy/pillage/rape") is something I have never seen.